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Is Modi’s fabled Gujarat model lawful and accountable?

"...While this artisanal salt producing community has lived in the anxiety of this eviction for years, the government gave away 40,000 acres of land in 2006-7 for potash production in the Great Rann of Kutch to Archean Chemicals... Neither salt, nor its producers seem to be on the development map in Gujarat. These are mere examples of the integral parts of the much discussed Gujarat model which necessitates the sacrifice of certain groups of people at its altar. Environment Justice- the intersection of place, socio-economic rights and development, and this model are entirely incompatible..."